News/Info -- Palacios

PALACIOS TECHNICAL CENTER

Texas State Technical College Waco offers technical educational opportunities in Palacios in conjunction with the Texas State Marine Center on the shore of Matagordo Bay.

The college teaches Aquaculture, Environmental Health & Safety and Diesel Equipment Technology at the center. Included in the Diesel Equipment program is agricultural, construction equipment and marine propulsion diesel engines.

For information on associate’s degree or certificate programs in a career that will give you an edge in the job market, call us at 1-800-813-8782 or write us at 100 Marine Center Drive, Palacios, Texas 77456

The library at the Palacios Technical Center is located in Room 117. We have technical books, videos, and CDs for your use in the library and for checkout. There are also several books and magazine titles that are non-technical and for your general interest.

TO CHECK OUT LIBRARY MATERIALS:
Take the items to the Departmental Secretary (Tracy Harvey).
Sign the card that is assigned with the item and give it to the Departmental Secretary.
The Departmental Secretary will write the return date on the card and on the Date Due Slip in the library item.

Please return the items directly to the Departmental Secretary. To avoid overdue fines, you will need to return items by their due date. You will be charged the price of any item you lose.

ON-LINE LIBRARY SERVICES

When you need to do research for your classes, you may access the EBSCOHost Online Database on the TSTC Waco Library website at http://walib.tstc.edu
(or you may click on TSTC Waco Library Homepage at the bottom of this page).

Because of database subscription requirements, established by the database companies, EBSCOHost is the only Online Database you may access and it is restricted to on-campus use only. However, as it is a large database covering most subjects, you should find it meets your research needs.

On the TSTC Waco Library homepage, in the upper right-hand corner is a section called Online Databases. Click on EBSCOHost to take you to the EBSCOHost system; you will then need to click on EBSCOhost Web - All databases.

On the Choose Databases screen, you may select the databases you want to search by clicking on the box beside the databases. By default, Academic Search Premier is already checked since it has full text coverage for more than 7,000 publications in almost every area of academic study. After you select the databases click on Continue to enter the main search screen.

FOR A SUBJECT SEARCH:

Enter your search words in the box beside the word Find.

For full text articles, click on the box beside Full Text. You may also set additional limiters or expanders.

Next, click on Search.

This will bring you to a result list. To display summaries of the articles, click Preferences, then click the Detailed format and then click Apply.

Articles may be in HTML Full Text, PDF Full Text, or in both Full Text formats. Whenever possible, the PDF Full Text format will be the one you want to use because, since it is a picture of the actual pages of the articles, the page numbers are also available for footnoting purposes. The HTML Full Text articles contain the information of the articles, but without the specific page numbers.

You may place articles in a session memory folder by clicking on the word Add under the folder icon to the right of the result list. You may place several articles in the Folder. To view the articles, click on the words View Folder on the top right of the screen to take you to the Folder Contents screen; from here you may print, E-mail, or save to disk.

To Print articles, click on Print to go to the Print Manager screen; click on the online help link on the Print Manager screen for detailed information on how to print PDF Full Text articles.

Click on the word Exit at the top right of the screen to end your session in EBSCOHost.

TO VIEW THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF A JOURNAL:

On the Choose Databases screen, click on Title List under the database you are selecting to search.

A list of journals in that database will be displayed. You may browse the list alphabetically, by subject, by subject and description, or by matching search words.

If you know the name of the journal you may enter its name in the box after the words Browse Publications and then click Browse; the information on the requested journal will be displayed if the journal is in that database. If you find the journal through the alphabetical search, click on the journal title.

On the screen that displays information on the journal, you will find the years that are available for searching. Click on the year in which you are interested to see which issues are available.

Click on the issue you want to read to bring up the table of contents for that issue. You may then click on any of the articles that you want to read.

Please remember that you may click on the word Help at the top of the screens for any online help.

ON-LINE REFERENCE AND INTER-LIBRARY LOAN HELP FROM TSTC WACO LIBRARY:

Our web site has a place for you to ask reference questions and to request inter-library loan books. For reference questions, click on the Reference link above. For inter-library loan book requests, click on the Inter-library loan link.

The inter-library loan service is available to you when you are unable to find the materials you need for your course in a library in your area. Please plan ahead for an assignment or paper/project and allow several weeks for this service.